A King comes every day to the house in which are the two girls. Afterwards, the Gama-mahagē’s daughter, having quarrelled with the Gamarāla’s daughter, went to the Gama-mahagē and told tales: “A King comes every day to the house we are in.”
Then the woman said, “Daughter, you go to that house to-day [and watch if he comes].” Having said “Hā” (Yes), that girl went.
Afterwards the girl came to the house in which was the Mahagē. After having come, she said, “Mother, to-day also the King came.”
Then that girl’s mother, having cut her finger-nails[2] and given them into the hand of the girl, said, “Daughter, take these and place them upon the beam of the threshold.” The girl, having taken them and placed them on the beam of the threshold, came to the Mahagē’s house.
On the following day the girl did not go to the house of the Gamarāla’s daughter. That day, also, came the King. After he came he placed his foot on the beam of the threshold; then the finger-nails pricked him. Immediately the King went to the city on the back of the tusk elephant.
On the following day, when that [Gamarāla’s] girl was weeping and weeping under a tree because he did not come, while some crows were swallowing and swallowing the fruits of the trees a crow said, “Andō! What is that Gamarāla’s daughter crying for?” The other crow said, “What is it to thee! Do thou in silence quickly swallow two or three fruits off that.”
Afterwards, it having become night, part of the crows went to the nests; two still remained over in the tree. One of them said, “Anē! What is that Gamarāla’s daughter crying for?” The other crow said, “What is it to thee! Do thou in silence swallow the fruits off that. All the crows went away; mustn’t we also go? It has become night.”
Then the Gamarāla’s daughter laments, “A light was falling and falling [into my life]; it is not there now.”
The crow said, “Being without a light, what art thou lamenting for?”
The girl said, “A King was coming and coming to our house. Our stepmother having placed some finger-nails on the threshold, they pricked the King’s foot, and having gone to the city he does not come now. On account of that I am lamenting.”